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The Meat Tax
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| 13 April 2007
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Posted on 04/13/2007 5:05:31 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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Democrats are meatheads. They already are responsible for all the high food prices we pay.
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To: Kitten Festival
They're doing it for the poor!
Oh, wait, uh.. maybe not.
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:12:17 PM PDT
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: Wonder Warthog
I hope you are right. o.o’
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:13:55 PM PDT
by
tranzorZ
To: Kitten Festival
One buck and five doe rabbits, kindled at the right time, will yield the same amount of meat that a steer will at slaughter over a year’s time.
Invest in rabbits and pork the left.
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:14:12 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Current tagline is banned under hate speech laws.)
To: Kitten Festival
You think food prices are going up here, just check out China and India.
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:21:34 PM PDT
by
oyez
To: Wonder Warthog
There is one good thing that arises from the ethanol additions. It is the kick that is given to the farm economy. More acreages are planted, more tractors are sold, all grain prices rise, the farmer is making money. Rural banks are stimulated, land prices rise, the breadbasket and Chicago are on the rise. Red states perhaps will get well and the blue states will pay the high price.
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:22:50 PM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: Kitten Festival
"Those who want to end global warming and our reliance on foreign oil often propose a massive "carbon tax" to make crude less appealing. Don't look now, but you're already paying it. By heavily subsidizing the use of ethanol, a fuel additive less efficient than gasoline and costlier to produce, Congress has, in effect, enacted a tax hike." Are people complete idiots in this country? Do they thing BURNING ETHANOL produces any LESS CO2? It doesn't!!!! BURNING anything produces CO2, except pure hydrogen, which isn't actually burning.
To: Wonder Warthog
You are right of course, but American journalists, leftist hog farmers are too dim witted to realize that.
there will be a huge glut of corn byproduct resulting from increased ethanol production, which has to be used somewhere. What better than cheap low grade filler for feedstock and food processors.
To: ArtyFO
****There is one good thing that arises from the ethanol additions. It is the kick that is given to the farm economy. More acreages are planted, more tractors are sold, all grain prices rise, the farmer is making money***
However, cattle prices go down as feed is diverted to ethanol production. Farmers will plant MORE grain the next year and the byproducts of ethanol can be used as feed till production catches up with the supply.
One bad note, grain with murcury treated seed was used to make ethanol several years ago and the byproducts fed to cattle near here. Milk tested positive for HIGH murcury content and the herds had to be destroyed.
So not use treated seed for ethanol production.
To: Wonder Warthog
After you’ve strip corn of everything to make ethanol, what food byproduct is left?
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:49:02 PM PDT
by
gotribe
( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
To: ArtyFO
So does that mean we can now end Welfare for Farmers?
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posted on
04/13/2007 5:50:36 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Fred Thompson will mop the floor with all the other Republican nominees.)
To: Kitten Festival; Cindy; Alamo-Girl; Calpernia; tiamat; onyx
Healthy People 2010 and USDA ping.
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posted on
04/13/2007 6:05:28 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: gotribe
"After youve strip corn of everything to make ethanol, what food byproduct is left?" Quite a bit, actually. The only thing removed by the fermentation process is the part of the carbohydrate fraction (usually sold today as "corn syrup" sweeteners, and added to all sorts of foods, including soft drinks). The protein fraction and the fat fraction (corn oil) remain as byproducts and are sold for various purposes. See "distillers grain" for one type of byproduct. This is normally sold as cattle food.
Even the old-timey moonshiners fed their "post-processed" grain to pigs (happiest hogs ever, I'm sure).
To: Wonder Warthog
Thanks for the education. Sounds like the distillers work magic - make some shine and still have food left.
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posted on
04/13/2007 6:51:05 PM PDT
by
gotribe
( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
To: WorkingClassFilth
,i>One buck and five doe rabbits, kindled at the right time, will yield the same amount of meat that a steer will at slaughter over a years time.
I raised and butchered rabbits during WW II to put meat on the table while Dad was in the Navy. We had up to 200 at a time at the peak of our production. It can be done, but we lived in a rural area, and still had to depend on commercial rabbit feed. I'm not sure it makes sense on a large scale.
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posted on
04/13/2007 6:54:03 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: JoeFromSidney
I’m not saying that. What I would predict is that folks would raise their own meat if the fascists insist on sticking their damn heads into affairs that don’t belong to them. Rabbits are cheap feed for the enterprising individual and more will catch on as things tighten up.
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posted on
04/13/2007 7:27:17 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Current tagline is banned under hate speech laws.)
To: gotribe
After youve strip corn of everything to make ethanol, what food byproduct is left?Cobs.
Red and white cobs.
White cobs for testing.
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posted on
04/13/2007 7:35:57 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: Wonder Warthog
ETOH is BS! What food products are a byproduct of ETOH? The estimates I have seen say that 74% of the tillable farm land Has to be put in corn & oil seed to supply our energy needs. It will take a lot of gearing up to make up this drain.Besides if we use up all the corn, what will we make our tortillas out of. Besides who is going to be willing to take the 25-30% hit on fuel economy? Of course a decree will be issued by Ceaser Algoretus and force us. Distillers grain is a high protean SUPPLEMENT and not a complete feed. Also when have you ever known prices of agricultural foodstuff to go down. Just another tax on the poor by limousine liberals.
angel
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:14:19 PM PDT
by
mbiangel
(The Devil died and they elected Algore Prince of the Air!)
To: Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; Fedora; ..
[singing] Hitler was a vegetarian too...
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:55:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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